I would be grateful if someone could direct me to detailed instructions, pictures or a video of how to install the XBee transceiver modules in the XBee version of the DF Robotshop Rover.
thanks very much
JOrdan
P.S. I bought the Arduino wireless shield to avoid soldering, if there is a picture on how this is installed it would be much appreciated.
Merry Christmas everyone.
This is from the robotshop website:
I am not averse to soldering, but anyway I bought the RB-Ard-30. It is not obvious to me how I would connect this to the main V2 board. I would be grateful for any description or picture.
thanks very much
Jordan
Carlos
this picture is not helpful. What is so hard about taking a picture of the RB-Ard-30 shield on a V2 board and placing it on your website. Te placement of this shield is absolutely not obvious nor well explained in the documentation you are supplying. If you are advising customers to buy an item, you should at least be able to provide the minimal instruction on how to use it or show how it is mounted, unless this is a mistake on your website.
the point is that the pins on the RB-Ard-30 do NOT line up with any pins on the V2 board, as fa as I can tell.
thanks very much
Jordan
Thank you very much. This is very helpful.
Jordan
Hi I bought the DFRobotShop Rover V2 - Arduino Compatible Tracked Robot (Bluetooth Kit).
I managed to assemble it and uploading example, and I controlled it with my key board.
But I am having trouble with the xbee, it has power but I’m unsure how to make it work because it does not seam to be the same as the one in the PDF because it does not have a usb connector on it and has 2 modes, one of them being AT.
robotshop.com/Images/xbig/en/dfrobotshop-rover-tracked-robot-bluetooth-kit-B.jpg
thx for looking at my post, your help is much appreciated.
Chris
Ya, I can figure all this out given time, but it’d be nice if there were a tutorial with a sample sketch on getting the xbee modules going on the v2. I have the i/o shield (rb-dfr-71), and I can snap it all together - but some pics and a sketch to test it all would be sweet. I also know it’s another one of those things that once I do it, I’ll understand how dumb it is to ask for a tutorial to do it because it’s stupid simple 
I’m also wondering about where I mount the lipo battery - it comes with a lipo, but I don’t see a good way to mount it.
Ok, so it was so stupidly simple that I feel stupid for not knowing what I was doing
First, the Xbee’s are already configured to work. If you have the fancy i/o shield, then it’s just a matter of loading the sketch from the pdf manual, plugging one Xbee into the Rover and one into the USB Adapter, connecting to the USB module with Hyperterm and controlling the robot.
I had trouble with the XBees because I was expecting them at 9600 and they were set at 56700 baud. I went ahead and changed that on each XBee to 9600.
I also had trouble uploading the sketch to the Rover when the i/o module was attached (AVR error) - I found that I could remove the shield, upload the sketch, and then plug the shield back into the Rover. However support pointed out that the reason for this was that the shield uses pins 1 and 0 for serial communication (duh) and that I can pull a couple of jumpers to disable this and then upload the sketch (easier). I don’t have the ard-30 but it should just plug into the Rover board matching up the pin numbers.
Anyway, thanks for answering all my questions Carlos - I’m up and running and adding distance and tilt sensors and enjoying my Rover. If anything I made things far more complex than needed due to my inexperience with Xbees.
This was sent as a support question as well so we replied there. However, for those curious on how to connect an XBee module to the DFrobotShop rover, it is quite simple:
]Solder the XBee headers or connect an XBee shield/:m]
]Connect an XBee module to the newly installed header socket on the rover./:m]
]Connect another XBee module to a USB adapter./:m]
]Connect the adapter to a USB port./:m]
You can see a picture of the rover (albeit V1, but the same applies for V2) with an XBee module mounted on it using an IO shield: robotshop.com/gorobotics/articles/microcontrollers/carlitos-projects-speech-controlled-arduino-robot
As for the LiPo, we slide it between the the gearbox and the last idler shaft. I personally like to add two blobs of hot glue in order to keep it in place while not sticking it to anything.
Chris06, the BluetoothBee is a bit different than the XBee, you will need to pair it with your computer.See some instructions here: dfrobot.com/wiki/index.php?title=BLUETOOH_BEE_%28SKU:TEL0023%29
You can probably pair the BluetoothBee with your phone but it will be more difficult than with a computer, mainly because there is less information and instructions available for computer , compared to phones. Also, sometime, cell phones only support a few type of BT communication and may not be compatible with the BTBee serial communication.
You can however get a USB BT adaptor for your computer if you want to ease the esperimentation: RB-All-20
